Archive - Jun 2012

June 29th

June 29, 2012

Glenna Carmean, 78, of Spencerville, died at 2:50 a.m. Friday, June 29, 2012, at her residence following a three-month illness.
Funeral arrangements are incomplete at the Thomas E. Bayliff Funeral Home in Spencerville, where visitation will be on Sunday.

June 28, 2012

NEW BREMEN — After having to remove multiple village trees last summer, New Bremen is cautioning its residents to be on the lookout for bagworms.

“Last year, we had two areas where they were really bad, one by the tennis courts by the pool and we also had them in the industrial park,” New Bremen Parks Foreman Ron Tontrup said. “Around the tennis courts, there were three arborvitae that we had to dig out and replace. They just kill the trees.”

June 28, 2012

ST. MARYS — Facing bone-dry conditions, a pair of local safety officials are cautioning residents from holding open burns until precipitation returns.

“As of last week, we were 8.5 inches below normal rainfall,” Auglaize County EMA Director Troy Anderson told The Evening Leader. “By the end of the week, we will probably be 9.5 inches because of evaporation and moisture leaving the soil.”